Between Us: Movie Review

Boring people in uncaring friendships and relationships.

Between Us is a relationship drama. Two thirty-something couples, all friends, have ended up in slightly different places in life, but they are all determined to get through their relationships together. Except, they really don’t care. And that leads us to a pretty insurmountable problem. If they don't care, why should we? In short, we don't.		2012 Directed by: Dan Mirvish Screenplay by: Joe Hortua, Dan Mirvish Starring: Julia Stiles, Taye Diggs, David Harbour and Melissa George

Family Weekend: Movie Review

Dark comedy turns a kidnapping into a sweet coming-of-age story.

“Family Weekend” is a dark comedy about a 16-year-old girl, Emily (Olesya Rulin), who takes her family into her own hands to turn them into a normal family. But it’s not going to be easy; Samantha Smith-Dungy (Kristin Chenoweth) is a workaholic mom, Duncan Dungy (Matthew Modine) is hippie artist dad, and her brother and sister are maladjusted kids who think they are perfectly well-adjusted.		2013 Directed by: Benjamin Epps Screenplay by: Matt K. Turner Starring: Olesya Rulin, Matthew Modine and Kristin Chenoweth

Prisoners: Movie Review

Two suspenseful approaches to one dark crime.

It’s Thanksgiving in Pennsylvania and the sky is gray, the air is cold and the ground is frozen. Two families, perfectly matched, celebrate the holiday together. Each family has two kids, a teenager and a younger daughter. The daughters are 6-year-old girls, ready to get into a harmless adventure, and the teenagers are teenagers. But the girls go missing, and on we go to find them and figure out what happened.		2013 Directed by: Denis Villeneuve Screenplay by: Aaron Guzikowski Starring: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal